Wednesday 27 January 2010

London Calling

If you can make it to the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, London, SW1P 3EE (nearest tube: Westminster) on Friday, there here is the timetable for all-day protest on Tony Blair's Judgement Day:

8.00: PROTEST STARTS AS BLAIR ARRIVES
A delegation including Iraqi citizens and grieving military families take the People's Dossier of questions for Tony Blair to Sir John Chilcot.

9.00-10.00: NAMING OF THE DEAD CEREMONY
When Blair's testimony begins, names of Iraqis killed in the war will be read by novelist A.L Kennedy, musician Brian Eno, actor and director Sam West, actor and director Simon McBurney, playwright David Edgar, Lancet editor Richard Horton, former UK ambassador Craig Murray, Iraqi author Haifa Zangana, comedian and author Alexei Sayle, actor Miriam Margolyes, and more.

10.00-11.00: SPEECHES, READINGS AND PERFORMANCES
Including by many of those participating in the Naming the Dead ceremony.

12.00-13.00: PERFORMANCES
Lowkey, King Blues and other musicians.

13.00-14.00: MILITARY FAMILIES NAMING OF THE DEAD
Members of military families who lost loved ones in the Iraq war will read the names of all 179 British soldiers who died.

16.00: PROTEST AS TONY BLAIR LEAVES THE INQUIRY

2 comments:

  1. Yawn... same old same old leftish idiots with nothing better to do with a smattering of the 'Holland Park' Socialists (Lord Stansgate). You really would think these people had better things to do. And as to the art establishment there, Sam West etc, yawn.

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  2. See today's post on what we are about to witness. Should be up in about half an hour.

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